Syriana was released in the year 2005。

A missile disappears in Iran, but the CIA has other problems: the heir to an Emirate gives an oil contract to China, cutting out a US company that promptly fires its immigrant workers and merges with a small firm that has landed a Kazakhstani oil contract. The Department of Justice suspects bribery, and the oil company's law firm finds a scapegoat. The CIA also needs one when its plot to kill the Emir-apparent fails. Agent Bob Barnes, the fall guy, sorts out the double cross. An American economist parlays the death of his son into a contract to advise the sheik the CIA wants dead. The jobless Pakistanis join a fundamentalist group. All roads start and end in the oil fields.

Syriana actors and actresses include Alexander Siddig, Amr Waked, George Clooney, Jamey Sheridan, Jayne Atkinson, Katie Foster, Matt Damon, Max Minghella, Mazhar Munir, Nicholas Art, Roger Yuan, Steven Hinkle。